''Chodsigoa'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
shrew
Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to different fa ...
s in the tribe
Nectogalini
Nectogalini is a tribe of Old World water shrews within the family Soricidae. As of late 2007, it consisted of six extant genera and 25 species, with some of the latter being further divided into subspecies.
Adaptation to semiaquatic life
Memb ...
.
Species
There are currently ten species
classified under the genus ''Chodsigoa'':
*
Van Sung's shrew
Van Sung's shrew (''Chodsigoa caovansunga''), also known as Cao Van Sung mountain shrew is a species of shrew in the Soricomorpha order. Specimens of ''Chodsigoa caovansunga'' have been found in Vietnam.http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/search.htm ...
(''Chodsigoa caovansunga'') (Lunde, Musser and Son, 2003)
*''?
Chodsigoa hoffmanni
''Chodsigoa'' is a genus of shrews in the tribe Nectogalini.
Species
There are currently ten species classified under the genus ''Chodsigoa'':
*Van Sung's shrew (''Chodsigoa caovansunga'') (Lunde, Musser and Son, 2003)
*''?Chodsigoa hoffmanni ...
'' sp. nov. (Zhong-Zheng Chen et al., 2017)
*
De Winton's shrew
The De Winton's shrew (''Chodsigoa hypsibius'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country ...
(''Chodsigoa hypsibia'') (de Winton, 1899)
**''Chodsigoa hypsibia parva''
*
Lamulate shrew
The lamulate shrew (''Chodsigoa lamula'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country ...
(''Chodsigoa lamula'') (Thomas, 1912)
*
Lowe's shrew
The Lowe's shrew (''Chodsigoa parca'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group= ...
(''Chodsigoa parca'') (G. M. Allen, 1923)
**''Chodsigoa parca lowei''
**''Chodsigoa parca parca''
**''Chodsigoa parca furva'' (Anthony, 1941)
*
Pygmy brown-toothed shrew
The pygmy brown-toothed shrew (''Chodsigoa parva'') is a species of shrew in the order Eulipotyphla. It is distributed in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most po ...
(''Chodsigoa parva'') (G. M. Allen, 1923)
*
Salenski's shrew
Salenski's shrew (''Chodsigoa salenskii'') is a red-toothed shrew found only in northern Sichuan, China, where it is known from Wolong National Nature Reserve
Wolong National Nature Reserve (), also known as Wolong Special Administrative Regi ...
(''Chodsigoa salenskii'') (Kastschenko, 1907)
*
Smith's shrew
The Smith's shrew (''Chodsigoa smithii'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Southwest China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populou ...
(''Chodsigoa smithii'') (Thomas, 1911)
*
Lesser Taiwanese shrew
The lesser Taiwanese shrew (''Chodsigoa sodalis'') is a rare species of shrew in the Soricomorpha
Soricomorpha (from Greek "shrew-form") is a formerly used taxon within the class of mammals. In the past it formed a significant group within the ...
(''Chodsigoa sodalis'') (Thomas, 1913)
The name ''Chodsigoa'' has also been classified as a subgenus for the genus ''
Soriculus
''Soriculus'' is a genus of shrew native to Asia. The Himalayan shrew ''(Soriculus nigrescens)'' is the only extant member of the genus, though other species were once included here and there are also several fossil species included here.
Taxonom ...
'' in the same family.
References
Further reading
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*Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin :Nicolai,1835-
*Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig :Wilhelm Engelmann,1896–1934.
*Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London :BM (NH)
*Bulletin of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass. :The Museum,
*Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London :BM (NH),1951.
*International catalogue of scientific literature, 1901–1914. London Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920
*Mammals of Eastern Asia / by G.H.H. Tate. New York :
The Macmillan Company,1947.
*Mammals of the Kelley-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expedition, by Wilfred H. Osgood. Chicago,1932.
*Mammals of the Pacific world /
yT.D. Carter, J.E. Hill
ndG.H.H. Tate. New York :The Macmillan Company,1945.
*Papers on mammalogy, published in honor of
Wilfred Hudson Osgood. Chicago :
Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational ...
,1941
*''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology''. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
*The big game of central and western China : being an account of a journey from Shanghai to London overland across the Gobi desert / by Harold Frank Wallace. London :J. Murray,1913.
*The mammals of China and Mongolia / by Glover M. Allen. New York :
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...
,1938–1940.
*Zoologischer Anzeiger. Jena, VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag.
*Zoologisches Zentralblatt. Leipzig:W. Engelmann,
903–1912
Red-toothed shrews,
Mammal genera
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